Jeremy KahnARITY is *too* a word
(also I think PORTAPOTTY but that's not exactly a STEM word)
LUTEIN is a word, or there wouldn't be "luteinizing hormones" to learn about in human biology classes
CLITIC is still a word
No it doesn't mean *that* you prudes. It's a #linguistics term
Also, ALTAIC though I suppose that's a proper noun by their rules
Oh come on. You don't have FORMANT, and now you don't have EMIC either?
I can't be the only linguist frustrated now; we've pissed off the phonetics people AND the cultural anthropology people.
Alicia Beckford Wassink will be extra mad.
Also you reject MECHA, which has been a staple of my vocabulary almost as long as ANIME (accepted, but not in today's puzzle)
Okay I'm not sure this is STEM erasure
This is just anti-literacy
CONCOMITANT is a perfectly good ten-dollar word, it's an eleven letter pangram in this puzzle, and it's the FIRST WORD I SAW, so I am extra salty
Ben Rosengart@trochee I don’t know either of these words. Tell me more?
ARHOTIC means "r-less", e.g. most but not all UK English dialects, as opposed to RHOTIC (most but not all North American English dialects)
ORTHOTACTIC, usually used in the plural ORTHOTACTICS , refers to the rules and heuristics for writing "well" in writing systems for a particular language, compare PHONOTACTICS.
("English orthotactics take decades to learn well, but Spanish orthotactics can be largely grasped in a week")
@trochee for some reason I always thought the opposite of RHOTIC was NON-RHOTIC
I may be wrong here, coining my own neo-Latin
@trochee arhotic fiction as it were